Start Menu - classic view question

[Charles Gustafson]

New computer has Xp home edition on it. I prefer the classic view in
the start menu.
I would like to automatically delete the entries for the Recent
Documents menu like I was able to in Win98. It seems you can disable
the Recent Documents feature in the standard view of the Start Menu but
when you switch to Classic View this option disappears.

In Win98 the entries were stored in a directory "\windows\recent" and it
was a simple matter to delete them with a command in the autoexec.bat
file with the command "echo y | del c:\windows\recent\*.*".

I know you can right click on start, click on properties, click on
customize and click on clear document menu, but this is a pain compared
to the simplicity of the procedure in Win98.

I have been unable to find an equivalent of the "\recent" directory in
Xp. Is there one where I can do in Xp as I did in 98?

Thanks for your help.

Chuck Gustafson

[Richard]

Hi Charles,

You can use TweakUI for XP. Download and install TweakUI than click on
Explorer and uncheck " Allow Recent Documents on the start menu"

To get TweakUI:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp


Good Luck
Richard
"Charles Gustafson" > wrote in message
...
> New computer has Xp home edition on it. I prefer the classic view in
> the start menu.
> I would like to automatically delete the entries for the Recent
> Documents menu like I was able to in Win98. It seems you can disable
> the Recent Documents feature in the standard view of the Start Menu but
> when you switch to Classic View this option disappears.
>
> In Win98 the entries were stored in a directory "\windows\recent" and it
> was a simple matter to delete them with a command in the autoexec.bat
> file with the command "echo y | del c:\windows\recent\*.*".
>
> I know you can right click on start, click on properties, click on
> customize and click on clear document menu, but this is a pain compared
> to the simplicity of the procedure in Win98.
>
> I have been unable to find an equivalent of the "\recent" directory in
> Xp. Is there one where I can do in Xp as I did in 98?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Chuck Gustafson
>

[Charles Gustafson]

Thank you! Problem solved.

Chuck

Richard wrote:

>Hi Charles,
>
>You can use TweakUI for XP. Download and install TweakUI than click on
>Explorer and uncheck " Allow Recent Documents on the start menu"
>
>
>

[Richard]

Hi Chuck,

Thanks for the feedback. It helps to know when a fix works ( or not )

Richard

"Charles Gustafson" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you! Problem solved.
>
> Chuck
>
> Richard wrote:
>
> >Hi Charles,
> >
> >You can use TweakUI for XP. Download and install TweakUI than click on
> >Explorer and uncheck " Allow Recent Documents on the start menu"
> >
> >
> >
>